Posted on 11/06/2012 9:23:56 AM PST by ebysan
Frank Gaffney on Benghazigate scandal
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/categories/C4
Gaffney talks about Benghazi's purpose was to try to secure weapons left over from Gadhafi's stock pile. The US was moving these weapons to arm our enemies.... jihadists & al Qaeda!!
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/oct/22/the-real-reason-behind-benghazigate/
GAFFNEY: The real reason behind Benghazigate Was Obama gun-walking arms to jihadists?
Thanks to intrepid investigative reporting — notably by Bret Baier and Catherine Herridge at Fox News, Aaron Klein at WND.com and Clare Lopez at RadicalIslam.org — and information developed by congressional investigators, the mystery is beginning to unravel with regard to what happened that night and the reason for the subsequent, clumsy official cover-up now known as Benghazigate
The evidence suggests that the Obama administration has not simply been engaging, legitimating, enriching and emboldening Islamists who have taken over or are ascendant in much of the Middle East. Starting in March 2011, when American diplomat J. Christopher Stevens was designated the liaison to the “opposition” in Libya, the Obama administration has been arming them, including jihadists like Abdelhakim Belhadj, leader of the al Qaeda franchise known as the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group.
Fox News has chronicled how the Al Entisar, a Libyan-flagged vessel carrying 400 tons of cargo, docked on Sept. 6 in the Turkish port of Iskenderun. It reportedly supplied both humanitarian assistance and arms — including deadly SA-7 man-portable surface-to-air missiles — apparently destined for Islamists, again including al Qaeda elements, in Syria.
What cries out for further investigation — and debate in the remaining days of this presidential election — is whether this shipment was part of a larger covert Obama effort to transfer weapons to our enemies that could make the Iran-Contra scandal, to say nothing of Operation Fast and Furious, pale by comparison.
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Me too...nite all.
Right.
The US was kept off that site for so long that I don't think that passes the smell test. They wanted to allow our enemies to acquire all they wanted first.
Have a problem with the reported fact from an eye witness that the attackers wore Afghanistan type apparel and that they wore Al Qeada emblems on their clothes. Hard to believe that they would be so brazen. Yes, it is Al Qeada, but this was just a few months before the Presdiential election. And they knew the US President would have a green light to counter attack. Remember how Osama and company packed up and ran into the mountains fearing the counter attack ? Someone obviously wanted the US to think this was Al Qeada.
Absolutely! That is more than enough motive. That is really the biggest win they could achieve. They make a fool and a liar of the CiC and stand untouched on the ground they have taken. It unmasks 0bama as a dupe who expended large amounts of U.S. treasure and lots of political capital in the 0bama/NATO sacking of Libya all for the benefit of al Qaeda who simply walk in and take the spoils.
Thank you. Completely understood. Excellent points you made.
I meant ‘happenstance’ regarding the intentions of the attackers.
Benghazi: A Sea of Al-Qaeda Flags NRO Nov. 5, 2011
Given their weaponry and the amount of time it takes to set up mortars, etc, no, it was not a "happenstance" attack. There was evident planning and command structure. That denotes a higher level decision.
Did General Petraus pull the adultery card to fold and run.?. This boondoggle was a CIA operation, yes/no? Today and tomorrow congressional access to videos followed by the suspect grilling next week?
Petraus and Obama are cutting deals.
I know that. I didn’t say it was a happenstance attack. I said that capturing intel was happenstance for them. IOWs I don’t think that was their primary motivation. I think I explained that in some detail above.
I don’t know I am just learning about that. Turned the TV to Fox News about 20 minutes ago. I doubt he would claim to have had an affair if he didn’t. That doesn’t preclude the idea that he may have felt he couldn’t serve under 0coward anymore and factored that in. Resigning doesn’t get him out of testifying for Congress if they want to call him up.
No way, not after Teheran.
The US was kept off that site for so long that I don't think that passes the smell test. They wanted to allow our enemies to acquire all they wanted first.
If the attackers primary goal was to capture intel there would be no need to stall the FBI to give the jihadis a chance to get it. The site was cleared of all obstacles to a thorough search by early morning 9/12.
I didn't say it was their primary goal. I am suggesting that there are people in the AQ hierarchy or even in the Libyan government with the intelligence and experience to contact potential "enemies of my enemy" and offer them the opportunity to mine the site, for a substantial fee of course. It takes a while to sift through a destroyed building.
The site was cleared of all obstacles to a thorough search by early morning 9/12.
Not for the FBI, and if you think Zero wasn't complicit in that I've got news for you.
I don't know what the hell you're talking about. I've been excoriating 0coward for this since Sept, 12th. I said on this thread that I didn't think the attackers primary goal was the intel (although in the past few weeks I have noted that it was a very worthy motivation for the attack) and you started arguing with me about that statement.
We have a President that fires off drone missiles that are too numerous to count. No one is going to run out, wave a flag, and say, shoot me next.
Al Qaeda always wants the world to know of the things they have done. Most terrorist groups do in fact. That is their main source of leverage. Since when are muzzie jihadis worried about getting killed?
Wouldn't they already know that?
As temporary as this non consul ant consultant was since it just seemed to be there as a resting place for Stevens and for meetings ...like he had with the Turkish guy.
The good stuff would have been in Tripoli.
The “annex” was a CIA outpost. I suspect any good stuff would have been there. Names of operatives, what they were doing. Names of Libyans cooperating with them and what they were doing. Names of all their contacts. Info on how far they had penetrated jihadi groups. Perhaps means and methods and/or installations throughout the ME.
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